Neuropharmacology in aging and neurodegeneration

Presentació

Mercè Pallàs is a Full Professor in Pharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the University of Barcelona (UB). He is also a founder member of the Institute of Neuroscience of the Universitat de Barcelona (NeuroUB). She has over 25 years’ experience working on preclinical pharmacology, with focus on cognitive decline in ageing and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). After her PhD in the UB (1991), she spent one year (1992-93) at the Instituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri (Italy) working within the group of Prof. Daniela Corda on GPCR. He returned to Barcelona in 1993 as Associate Professor and was later promoted to Full Professor in 2011.

After working several years with non pharmacological (Diet, exercise, caloric restriction) and pharmacological strategies (melatonin of resveratrol), she is currently interested in discern the precise mechanisms of action and the molecular pathways implicated of new drugs synthetized by ChemMedPharm. This include small molecules targeting neuroinflammation (soluble Epoxide hydrolase inhibitors), mitochondrial stress, oxidative stress (imidazoline 2 receptors) in pathological senescence and the crossroad with epigenetics (inhibitors of G9a among others).

She has participated as PI in several research projects from public funding agencies and in several research contract with Spanish pharmaceutical companies. She is co-inventor in several patent and patent applications both in new chemical entities with biological activity. So far she has supervised 14 PhD Thesis, and several MSc Research projects.

Her teaching activities have been mainly focused on topics related to Pharmacology, Neuropharmacology, Pharmacology in R+D+I and Ageing.

Contatce

Mercè Pallàs

pallas@ub.edu

Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences

University of Barcelona

Tel. 93 4024531

ORCID: 0000-0003-3095-4254 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-4254

Scopus Author ID: 7003835718

Researcher ID: H-3129-2016

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=lcwElTEAAAAJ&hl=ca